Three teams used the flash-team approach, in which the Foundry system kept all the team members apprised of each other, while three other teams were self-managed. All the teams completed their work, but the flash teams did theirs in half the time. In fact, the slowest flash-team finished its task faster than the fastest self-managed team.

The future of work could be “flash teams”

Imagine a group of strangers who within days can turn a napkin sketch into a product.